― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Me too. Especially when he got to "I end the program by saying, 'you’ve made this day a special day by just you being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you... just the way you are.'"
― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― service comedy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 29 September 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a trip out to meet Koko for his show, not only did she immediately wrap her arms around him and embrace him, she did what she’d always seen him do onscreen: she proceeded to take his shoes off!
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
these people at the zoo, they lied about koko, completely.
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Jesus, I loved Mr. Rogers. I remember the day he died. My brother came in my room and told me he had. Then we sat about 5 minutes in somber silence. What a sad day. What a good man he was.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh he could have been a good man, alright, but look at the generations of children he spoiled by telling them they were special. Take it away, Wall Street Jounral douchebag:
Don Chance, a finance professor at Louisiana State University, says it dawned on him last spring. The semester was ending, and as usual, students were making a pilgrimage to his office, asking for the extra points needed to lift their grades to A's."They felt so entitled," he recalls, "and it just hit me. We can blame Mr. Rogers."Fred Rogers, the late TV icon, told several generations of children that they were "special" just for being whoever they were. He meant well, and he was a sterling role model in many ways. But what often got lost in his self-esteem-building patter was the idea that being special comes from working hard and having high expectations for yourself.[...]Signs of narcissism among college students have been rising for 25 years, according to a recent study led by a San Diego State University psychologist. Obviously, Mr. Rogers alone can't be blamed for this. But as Prof. Chance sees it, "he's representative of a culture of excessive doting."Prof. Chance teaches many Asian-born students, and says they accept whatever grade they're given; they see B's and C's as an indication that they must work harder, and that their elders assessed them accurately. They didn't grow up with Mr. Rogers or anyone else telling them they were born special...
"They felt so entitled," he recalls, "and it just hit me. We can blame Mr. Rogers."
Fred Rogers, the late TV icon, told several generations of children that they were "special" just for being whoever they were. He meant well, and he was a sterling role model in many ways. But what often got lost in his self-esteem-building patter was the idea that being special comes from working hard and having high expectations for yourself.
[...]
Signs of narcissism among college students have been rising for 25 years, according to a recent study led by a San Diego State University psychologist. Obviously, Mr. Rogers alone can't be blamed for this. But as Prof. Chance sees it, "he's representative of a culture of excessive doting."
Prof. Chance teaches many Asian-born students, and says they accept whatever grade they're given; they see B's and C's as an indication that they must work harder, and that their elders assessed them accurately. They didn't grow up with Mr. Rogers or anyone else telling them they were born special...
― kingfish, Sunday, 22 July 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Now that is some stupid shit. Long live Mr. Rogers.
― humansuit, Sunday, 22 July 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
there were plenty of generations of kids before the ones last spring who grew up with mr rogers. I'd say the last 15 years of graduating classes grew up with him. so Professor Chance is a dumbass.
― akm, Sunday, 22 July 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
what a douche
― s1ocki, Sunday, 22 July 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://msunderestimated.com/Ermey.jpg picture: don chance
― s1ocki, Sunday, 22 July 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Immigrants more likely to work harder, take less shit for granted than entrenched ruling class
Film at ALL FUCKING DAY EVERY DAY
Update: May be the fault of a person on television, not you, the fucking parents.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 July 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
y (attitude of entitlement) = C + x1 (exposure to mr. rogers)
R = .00000000001
― humansuit, Sunday, 22 July 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought Asian/Pacific Islanders was a strange choice for his example since, statistically, they're outpacing pretty much everybody in everything when it comes to education.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 22 July 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Also yeah, middle class white kids in feeling entitled shocka.
maybe mr chance should consider the larger picture of how a media climate which panders to the lowest common denominators of base human instinct twenty-four hours a day across every medium imaginable has turned the human race into a batch of brain-damaged sheep unable to read or write much less think for themselves, and then read the article about him bitching about children's teevee, and realize the children's teevee from three decades ago is actually more conducive to intelligent discourse than his phoned-in brain farts from the ivory tower
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 July 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
How does "you are unique" translate to "never take a C from your dickhead professor". That's a long bridge.
― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 22 July 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
if Prof Chance gave me a C i'd set him of fucking fire, and I don't think Mr. Rogers ever condoned that
― akm, Sunday, 22 July 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
phoned-in brain farts from the ivory tower
the new spoken word album by ned raggett
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 22 July 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Mister Rogers was never broadcast here in Australia and yet the same sense of entitlement seems to be pretty pervasive among the very same generation of kids.
― Kate, non masonic, Sunday, 22 July 2007 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Around the time that he died, I came across a link to a quote by Fred Rogers on another board where he proclaimed himself a supporter of punk rock music. Saying something to the effect that he thinks young people deal with a lot of problems and punk rock music was a valid response and way to channel adolescent frustration. He said that when he was a young man and was having problems with his parents, he would channel that into his piano practice by playing very aggressive and chaotic and he likened that to what punk rockers were doing today (then). He topped it all off by saying that if he was a young person today that would probably be a punk musician too! It was just clueness and well meant enough to be endearing and it stuck with me when I read it, but I've had no luck tracking it down online so far today.
― DustinR, Sunday, 22 July 2007 22:54 (sixteen years ago) link
He was a giant of a man. Preternaturally meek and gentle; preternaturally fearless. Read the Esquire interview from several years back. And that moment at the daytime Emmys! And yet he never came off as condescending, self-righeous, dogmatic, judgmental.
― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 22 July 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCYn21GriYI
Right here. Wow.
― humansuit, Sunday, 22 July 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 July 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
This is really fucking stupid. The culture of entitlement is a direct result of the fact that college students are less likely these days to have any interaction with the "real world" until after they graduate. Personally, I'm all for this trend. Let them entitle their way into post-grad jobs at McDonald's while those of us with our feet planted a little more firmly in reality snag the jobs that'll pay us sweet money for not thinking that we should just have everything handed to us on a silver tray.
I was so scared that this thread was revived to tell us that Mr. Rogers had died again.
― Deric W. Haircare, Sunday, 22 July 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i keed, messr, i keed.
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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 23 July 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Let them entitle their way into post-grad jobs at McDonald's while those of us with our feet planted a little more firmly in reality snag the jobs that'll pay us sweet money for not thinking that we should just have everything handed to us on a silver tray.
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/images/irony.gif
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 23 July 2007 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
touche
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 23 July 2007 01:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Of course, you realize that I'm speaking as someone who has yet to find that high-paying job which I so richly deserve.
― Deric W. Haircare, Monday, 23 July 2007 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/mister-rogers-neighborhood-greatest-tv-show-ever,91882/
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.esquire.com/features/can-you-say-hero-esq1198
― j., Thursday, 13 February 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
happy birthday!
― Dominique, Thursday, 20 March 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
I miss having you in the world, Fred Rogers, but I'm gladder every day that you were here when you were.
― (or if you must, "data") (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 20 March 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.esquire.com/features/can-you-say-hero-esq1198― j., Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:29 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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this is one of my favorite things that i have ever read
― guwop (crüt), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Tom Hanks -- not Eddie Murphy -- to play Mr. Rogers. #OscarsSoWhite #PBS pic.twitter.com/b5zrcs0upJ— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) January 29, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
the only reason people made up the legend of mister rogers having been a sniper in vietnam is because they are terrified that someone like him actually existed and he forcefully dares you to be a better person. so theyre just cynical as hell and also fuck all the people making pedophile jokes about him upthread, closest person i can think of to an actual saint
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
also he told me i wouldnt get sucked down the bathtub drain and that was a big help
A colleague of mine is one of the most absolutely inspirational humans I know. She keeps a framed photograph of Fred Rogers on her desk. That's not a coincidence. He was by every account and measure, an exemplary human being.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 24 March 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
This is lovely and makes me sad and inspired in equal measure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV_kxc9PxrQ
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
I would truly love to see this in the theater, but if my reaction to the trailer (as to so many Mr. Rogers clips) is any indication, I'm not sure I'm comfortable sobbing that much in public.
― The lovely and talented Loretta Switt and the irascible Jamie Farr (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
seriously
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
omg i'm really looking forward to watching this at home when it shows up on streaming and bawling my eyes out
― you bet, nancy (map), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
Considering actually taking the risk of seeing it at the theater. I hope they pass out Kleenex like they do 3D glasses in other movies.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 June 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
Seriously, the Senate video, I've seen it I don't know how many times, gets me every time. That Davy Rothbart story on This American Life? Just thinking about it gets me choked up. There's no way I'm not bawling my way through this thing.
― Buttholt Brecht (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 June 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
i hear the film's technique is the really pedestrian talking-heads & clips template
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 June 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that's pretty well demonstrated in the trailers. But thanks for the scoop!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 June 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
i hear your mom's technique is really pedestrian too xp
― you bet, nancy (map), Thursday, 7 June 2018 05:58 (six years ago) link